ORCHARD PARK — Plaxico Burress thought he’d be missing a regular-season game for the first time since he accidentally shot himself three years ago.

Instead, the Jets wide receiver was hard to miss on the field.

“I woke up [yesterday] morning, I didn’t think I was going to play,” Burress, who had been dealing with a sore back during the week, said after the Jets’ 27-11 win over the Bills. “But I just woke up, stretched, said a couple prayers and went out and just played as hard as I could. I lasted the whole game.”

Burress hauled in a game-high five catches for a Jets-high 79 yards, posting his best marks in both categories since Week 2 of the 2008 season with the Giants. Two Sundays ago — before the Jets’ bye — he ripped the Chargers for three touchdowns.

Burress said he didn’t feel like his back affected him at all.

“My hat’s off to Plaxico,” Rex Ryan said. “His back was bothering him, but he played great anyway.”

As did fellow starting wideout Santonio Holmes, who essentially declined to answer a question during the week about whether he was happy with his role. Holmes drew two second-half pass interference penalties that set up Jets touchdowns, one of which he finished himself with an 8-yard TD score.

“I guess you guys can get off of Santonio,” Ryan said. “Next week, I challenge somebody to come up with somebody else that’s struggling because it seems to work.”

Fair enough. Holmes now has touchdowns in three of his last four games. Third receiver Jeremy Kerley had a productive game, too, catching four passes.